Barbara Blaha

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Barbara Blaha (2015)

Barbara Blaha (born September 23, 1983 ) is an Austrian author, founder of the Momentum political congress and the Momentum Institute think tank, as well as the editor of the accompanying Moment magazine. Blaha is the former chairwoman of the Austrian Students' Union (ÖH).

Life

Blaha was born the second of seven children into a working-class family. She attended elementary school and high school in Vienna- Simmering . In 2002 Blaha began studying German at the University of Vienna , which she graduated in November 2009. In 2007 she acted as a juror at the protest song contest . In 2008 Barbara Blaha founded the Momentum Congress in Hallstatt. After her time at the Austrian Students' Union, Blaha became commercial director at Czernin Verlag in Vienna . The Germanist took over the program management for the non-fiction segment at Brandstätter Verlag in 2014 . In addition, she was responsible for the publisher's overall digital strategy. In 2018 she also took over the "Art & Life" division.

Blaha started the think tank "Projekt360" in 2019, from which the Momentum Institute and Moment Magazin emerged shortly afterwards . The medium was launched in autumn 2019. Research is carried out in the institute, which the magazine explains in journalistic terms. Both act politically independently and are purely funded by donations.

Political career

Her social commitment began in 1997 when she and her school colleague Dominik Gries revived the school newspaper project "Der Gottschalk" (named after the address of her school at that time, Gottschalkgasse, 1110 Vienna). "Der Gottschalk" has won the City of Vienna's School Newspaper Prize several times . From the year 2000 Blaha began to work in the student council of her school and in the Viennese regional student council . During this time she also became involved in the Aktion Kritischer Schülerinnen und Schüler Wien (aks), of which she was political secretary (2001) and chairwoman (2003).

During her studies she began to get involved with the VSStÖ . From 2004 to 2005 she was in the education policy department of the ÖH , responsible for questions about the Bologna Process . On March 7, 2005, she was presented as the VSStÖ's top candidate for the 2005 ÖH election. After the election, Blaha and Rosa Nentwich-Bouchal were elected to the ÖH chairperson team (formally: as deputy ÖH chairperson) of a red-green coalition. In 2006 she routinely took over the role of ÖH chairwoman from Rosa Nentwich-Bouchal, who, however, did not run for deputy chairwoman for health reasons. In 2007 she stopped working for the ÖH.

From 2006 to 2010 she was a directly elected member of the public council of the ORF .

In January 2013 Barbara Blaha was amended by the Senate of the University of Salzburg in the University Council elected the university, to which it belongs again in the term of 2018-2023.

Positions and content

From her own experience - she received a scholarship and grants herself - the social security of students is one of her main concerns. She is a staunch feminist and published the book “The End of the Tie Duty” in 2012, in which she shows the unwritten laws of power politics.

In January 2007 , Blaha and Sylvia Kuba, chairwoman of the VSStÖ, resigned from the SPÖ to protest against the retention of tuition fees in an SPÖ-led government . Since then she has been critical of the policies of the SPÖ under Federal Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer several times .

In the survey on the abolition of compulsory military service in 2013, Blaha was in favor of maintaining it.

Blaha's Momentum Institute operates independently of party political considerations. The benchmark are the social and economic interests of the vast majority. It wants to give "the many" a voice in a distribution policy discourse. Your mission is to deal seriously and critically with complex questions and to find solutions that ultimately benefit everyone. In her magazine she lets people speak about whom only others are usually spoken about in public.

Fonts

  • From giants and dwarfs. Structural change in the book trade in Germany and Austria, Munich, 2011.
  • Add. with Josef Weidenholzer (Ed.): Freedom. Contributions to a democratic society. Volume 2, Vienna, 2010.
  • Add. with Josef Weidenholzer (Ed.): Justice. Contributions to social, educational and economic policy. Volume 1, Vienna, 2009.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us | Moment. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Brandstätter Verlag / Barbara Blaha becomes head of nonfiction and digital. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Brandstätter Verlag / Elisabeth Stein-Hölzl leaves, Barbara Blaha takes over "Art and Life". Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  4. ↑ ›Our work will be relevant for everyone‹. February 28, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ Schaffer: "We don't just want to write for the little Twitteria". Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  6. ↑ derStandard.at: University councils are almost complete now . Article dated April 30, 2018, accessed May 2, 2018.
  7. ^ University Council of the University of Salzburg . Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  8. ↑ Barbara Blaha: Faymann and Androsch in the gunboat Commentary by the others in: DerStandard from September 12, 2012, accessed on October 30, 2019.
  9. ↑ ›Our work will be relevant for everyone‹. February 28, 2019, accessed on February 14, 2020 (German).
  10. ↑ Independent magazine "Moment": Project 360 has a name - derStandard.at. Accessed February 14, 2020 (Austrian German).

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SURNAME Blaha, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian chairwoman of the Austrian Students' Union
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna